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Show -73- The food in the cafeteria? never very good, had deteriorated. The causes of such alteration were unclear. Certainly they could not be blamed on the admission of a few hundred Black and Third World students. Nor could the Professor see that the new President could be at fault, or the faculty? which had not visibly altered? only increased as the general enrollment continued to rise. Some of the Professor's friends blamed it on the war, citing the polls that showed the students almost unanamous in their opposition? Some of them>particularly the graduate students, were in school simplytto avoid the draft. All of them were frustrated at their inability to do anything to stop the fighting? All of this seemed true enough, but not the whole truth. The recent assasinations of John F? Kennedy and of Martin Luther King*? with no clearly assignable motives, must J? the Professor thought? have heightened the students* suspicions of what they called "the establishment." Then there was the example of the present state government, which attempted to reduce its expenditures for education at the very moment that enrollment was climbing and when the schools were in the process of admitting minorities? The first threat of violence on the campus occured on a day when the Professor was not present; a sit-in by abeut a aundred student/and a few faculty at the administration building? 1 ostensibly a protest against the x*ar? |